Article: LOCAL MUSIC; The Devil went down to Fiji? Lusurfer puts a hellish spin on surf-rock, while earthly do-gooders will wheel out to the Square Lake Fest this weekend.(VARIETY)(LOCAL MUSIC)

Byline: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER; STAFF WRITER

Good gimmicks are hard to come by in rock `n' roll these days, especially ones having to do with Satan or surf-rock.

Four joe-blow local musicians you wouldn't bat an eye at passing on the street have ingeniously combined those two bastions of rock gimmickry and created a new band called Lusurfer, playing -- you've probably guessed it -- Satanic surf-rock. Their shtick includes pseudonyms such as Moloch the Manipulator, Asmoday the Tormentor and (scariest of all!) Gary the Insurance Salesman, plus they get all dressed up in ghoulishly painted faces that bleed onto their Hawaiian shirts. Underneath it all, ...

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